Acts 1: Holy Spirit Enablment Within Vs Upon
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5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
1) Being born again is of the Spirit and the baptism of the Holy Spirit is of the Spirit but they are two different events.
One is the Holy Spirit coming IN you and making your spirit alive unto God and the other is the Spirit coming UPON you for power to service and be a witness.
One is to be saved and the other is to have a fuller Christian life and ministry. The baptism of the Spirit is not for the purpose of salvation but for a special empowering for the believer to better share the Gospel of Christ.
Holy Spirit Within: This is for the Christian to draw from the well of their personal relationship with Jesus.
38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”
39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
This is the born again experience
27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Spirit going INTO a believer as a seal of the covenant after they have believed in the Lord Jesus.
Jesus Promised the Holy Spirit not only upon but within each and every one of us.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
When did that day happen?
John 20:17 (ESV)
17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit comes UPON us for power to be witnesses. Not to get born again.
49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Luke 4 Jesus said the Holy Spirit is Upon Him
So the we can safely say that the this experience of the Spirit coming UPON a believer is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:5) which is a different experience than the Spirit going INTO a believer as a seal of the covenant after they have believed in the Lord Jesus.
The ministry of the Holy Spirit is not a luxury; it is an absolute necessity.
We can’t live the supernatural life in the natural. We simply do not have the strength for that.
The only way to live that life is to let Christ live it through us.
Illustration:
I have here a work glove. This glove is designed for work, to life and carry…
“So I say to that glove pick up that Bible… It doesn’t do anything”
Come on glove you can do it you were made to pick up that book
Even though this glove was made for work it can’t do anything until there is a living hand in it. And that hand does it’s life through the glove.
That’s how the Christian life works.
Again we are not able to live the supernatural life in our own strength. We were made for it. We have the compassity for it, but we don’t have the power for it because of our fallen condition.
Our English word martyr comes from the Greek word translated “witness,” and many of God’s people have sealed their witness by laying down their lives.
14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
Whats more powerful than a bullet or atomic bomb is prayer. Prayer changes things.